F-Cell technology from Nokia Bell Labs revolutionizes small cell deployment by cutting wires, costs and time
October 03 2016 - 7:28AM
Press Release
- F-Cell re-imagines architecture to support truly "wireless
wireless" networking, removing the power and backhaul wires
required by current small cell deployments
- Massive capacity is deployed on demand with no pre-planning or
civil works required, allowing for drone-based delivery of
self-building wireless networks
- Technology breakthrough wins CTIA Emerging Technology 2016
Award for transforming Wide Area Networks (5G, 4G and LTE 4.5)
Nokia Bell Labs announces a breakthrough in small cell
technology that offers greater flexibility, efficiency and
optimized deployment economics to expedite the creation of the high
capacity and low latency network that will form the digital fabric
of the future for humans and machines. "F-Cell" technology
eliminates the costly power and backhaul wires and fibers currently
required for small cell installation to enable "drop and forget"
small cell deployments anywhere.
Bell Labs recently demonstrated the world's first
drone-based delivery of an F-Cell to a Nokia office rooftop in
Sunnyvale, CA. (captured in photo). The F-Cell wirelessly
self-powered, self-configured and auto-connected to the network and
instantly began to stream high-definition video.
Underlying the F-Cell breakthrough is a re-imagining of the
network architecture to place key functional elements in optimum
locations. The F-cell architecture is comprised of a closed loop,
64-antenna massive MIMO system placed in a centralized location
that is used to form 8 beams to 8 energy autonomous (solar powered)
F-Cells, each of which has been redesigned to require minimum
processing power so that the solar panel is no larger than the cell
itself. In this way, F-Cell technology sustainably solves today's
small cell and backhaul cabling, deployment and expense challenges
for service providers and enterprises.
The architecture supports non-line-of-sight wireless networking
in frequency division duplex (FDD) or time division duplex (TDD)
mode, and the parallel operation of up to 8 individual 20 MHz
channels allowing for a system throughput rate of ~1Gbit/s over
existing LTE networks. In future, this architecture will scale to
enable up to tens of Gbit/s using higher spectral bandwidth, new
spectral bands and a larger number antenna arrays.
"F-Cell is a key breakthrough in massively scalable and
massively deployable technology that will allow networks to deliver
seemingly infinite capacity, imperceptible latency and connectivity
to trillions of things," said Marcus Weldon, president of Nokia
Bell Labs and Nokia CTO. "Nokia Bell Labs is again excited to
re-invent the future and help drive what we believe will be a
technological revolution, underpinned by the creation of a new
digital network fabric that will transform human
existence."
F-Cell advances Nokia's Future X Network vision of 100x capacity
growth and 100x reduction in latency, with optimized, facile
deployment economics to explore the human possibility of technology
at speed and with the creation of new value.
In recognition of the breakthrough nature of the architecture
and constituent technologies, F-Cell won the CTIA Emerging
Technology (E-Tech) 2016 Award for cutting-edge mobile products and
services transforming Wide Area Networks (5G, 4G and LTE 4.5).
Resources:
- High resolution photo: Drone delivery of F-Cell
- Nokia Bell Labs
- The Future X Network: A Bell Labs Perspective
- @BellLabs
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